A new Emerson Polling survey conducted October 13-16 finds 44 percent of likely Iowa voters don’t support impeachment. Thirty-nine percent said they do support impeachment, while about 9 percent were unsure.
Only 5.8 percent of those surveyed said impeachment was the most important issue.
“The most important issue for voters in Iowa in deciding for whom to vote for president is the economy at 33%, followed by healthcare at 19% and social issues at 10%. Impeachment ranked 7 out of 9 at 6%, ahead of education at 5% and foreign policy at 3%,” the pollster reports.
There is a difference between people agreeing with a politician about a subject and finding it important. Some issues may show that a majority of Americans favor one side or the other, but that only really matters if it is important. Immigration issues seem to be follow that path. Overall a majority of Americans might not be in favor of a wall, but much of that majority won't lose sleep if a few billion dollars is spent on it. But those pro-wall anti-illegal-immigration types are much more likely to see the issue as big enough to support or oppose someone politically. As a politician you want to take the side that actually influences votes, not just polls well.
“In hypothetical head to head matchups, Trump has a slight advantage over (Senator Elizabeth) Warren and (former vice president Joe) Biden: 51% to 49%, while Sanders carries a 2 point advantage over Trump with 51% to 49%; all three match-ups are within the poll’s margin of error,” Emerson reports.
Iowa is one of those battleground states that were won by Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2016. So the fact that it is close in 2020 isn't surprising. It's also not surprising (at least to me) that Democrats appear to be overrating their "impeachment card" as it pertains to motivating voters.
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My goodness. SANDERS has a slight advantage over Trump among "Iowegians" (Iowans). Now that is really, really interesting.
Not really. The entire sample voted in the Democrat Caucus last time.
James...
I think it's more important that the President is beating both Warren and Biden. Sanders will not be the nominee.
As to his competence and judgment.
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
There were about 1,000 U.S. troops in Syria working with allied forces, mostly Kurds, before the end of last week. President Trump’s decision to withdraw them and clear the way for a Turkish military incursion — something the White House announced after the president had a phone call with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Oct. 6 — precipitated what’s now being called a humanitarian crisis in northern Syria. It also prompted pundits to wonder where this all fits with the president’s impulsive foreign policy.
On that last point, L.A. Times news columnist Doyle McManus is among those who are saying this does not represent a shift in White House policy, but a fulfillment of what Trump has promised all along: He’ll get U.S. forces out of faraway lands if the material gain is not obvious, and he’ll upend long-standing alliances to do it. (In a letter to the editor, an expert on national security and U.S.-Russia relations warns this represents a return to the 1930s isolationism that preceded World War II.)
On the “Trump is just winging it” side is op-ed columnist Jonah Goldberg, who sees ample evidence of the president’s foreign policy incoherence. Trump greenlighted Turkey’s military operation in northern Syria, then threatened to “destroy” that country’s economy in retaliation. Goldberg concludes: “These events aren’t the result of a serious policy of American withdrawal from ‘endless wars,’ they’re the inevitable and familiar byproduct of a president simply winging it.”
Either way, Trump comes off as “operatically incompetent,” as the L.A. Times Editorial Board put it.
Scott A**hole and you an isolationist like your hero Donald Trump?
One important factoid for Mr. Thornton.
No American solder was killed in action this pass week.
Impeachment is important, but for the Democrats the nominee has to be able to defeat Trump and his pathological lying supporters.
I still don't know how I will vote for in the primary election.
Warren is 70, the youngest of the three top candidates.
I think we need to unite behind the winner to save our Democracy from King Trump 1
How many of our allies have died last week???
You don't care because they are not veterans of World War Two.
The American Mirror?????
Breitbart is not different.
You have lost your mind Scott and get help.
Have Palsey bring the AUMF for a vote, what Obumghole did sending troops to Syria was never authorized
Kamala Harris Has Settled on an Iowa Strategy. Now What?
Ms. Harris has seen her stock fall in the presidential race. As she goes all in on Iowa, will voters respond?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/us/politics/kamala-harris-campaign-iowa.html
She was the media favorite and getting "help" from the Obamas.
This poll 2 weeks later has her at 2.2%
ROFLMFAO !!!
How many of our allies have died last week??
Which ally?
And do you really care about our "allies" more than the lives of American solders?
I certainly don't. And I don't see the point in involving them in endless tribal warfare.
Blogger James said...
My goodness. SANDERS has a slight advantage over Trump among "Iowegians" (Iowans). Now that is really, really interesting.
2016: feel the bern
2020: fill the urn
bernie. LOL.
good one, pederast.
hey alky,
i'm always fascinated by how cowardly draft dodgers can be such warhawks when the lives of others are at stake and not their own.
oh, and alky?
please help us understand just how exactly we're supposed to go to war against a NATO ally.
and spare me paul thornton's opinion. i'm looking for yours.
thanks alky.
Scott A**hole and you an isolationist like your hero Donald Trump?
isolationist alky?
is that the newest cnn/bozo's post buzzword?
well, those tossing that word around would be wise to explain in detail just what our strategic national interest is regarding remaining in syria.
as cali has been telling you on at least three threads now, and that which you have so far ignored, if this is so fucking important, then maybe poli-grip pelosi can pull the impeachment clown car into a cul-de-sac long enough to take a vote on the AUMF.
you're living proof that any fuckwit (or third-rate politician) can stand on the sidelines and criticize. the power to declare war resides with the congress. so declare. or shut the fuck up.
how many more graves must we dig at arlington and elsewhere to satiate your warhawk blood lust, alky?
and why is it always cowardly, draft-dodging, pieces of shit like yourself that are always calling for more dead and wounded service members?
in case you had forgotten, trump was elected to get us out of these clusterfucks in the shithole-istans around the world. another campaign promise kept. trying to export democracy to 12th century raghead animals was NEVER a good idea. their islam death cult forbids the freedom and liberty that democracy can provide. so fuck them. not another American life should be lost on behalf of those fucking animals.
CommonsenseOctober 19, 2019 at 11:40 AM
The Washington Post's new motto should be "Democracy dies by gaslight."
😀"She was the media favorite and getting "help" from the Obamas."
Camel-toe Harris is Alky's Choice.
Jane has not expressed his personal preference.
Yes...
First Trump had people defending rats.
Now he has people defending Syria as if they are our allies.
Defending rats? WTF are you talking about?
Mooselimbs or rag heads?
Assad is not our ally.
He are almost admitting that he fucked up in Syria for his completely insane decision????
rrb would have been against defeating Germany, because they were only killing Jews and rag heads.
The Kurds lost 11,000 defeating ISIS in coordination with American troops.
Non-sense
Trump has the defeated Socialist Democrats on the run.
Bye the way I am not a draft dodger son of a bitch like Trump is.
I volunteered for the US Navy nuclear power enlistment program in 1970. I passed the qualification test with a great number. I failed the physical exam for flat feet.
They were very disappointed.
I would have gotten a college degree in a related field.
The American people are continuing to support impeachment and conviction.
When Quinnipiac polled about the inquiry from September 27 to 29, 52% approved of it. From October 4 to 7, 53% approved. Now, 51% approved.
CBS News/YouGov polling shows a similar trend. On September 26 to 27, 55% approved of the impeachment inquiry. From October 8 to 11, it was 53%.
Marist College did a one-day poll on September 25 and put support for the inquiry at 49% among all adults. When it polled from October 3 to 8, that jumped to 52%.
All these polls showed movement within the margin of error. Across them, 52% supported the impeachment inquiry at the end of September and 52% support it now.
Indeed, when you look at every single pollster (these and others) that has polled about the inquiry multiple times since it began, we see the same picture: 52% approved of it in September and 52% do in October.
Kput'z is wrong about it because he is fucking stupid.
Alky, you never served because of your low quality genes made you physically unfit.
You never sniffed a College degree.
Stop.
Roger are you still Supporting Camel-Toe Harris?
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The American people are continuing to support impeachment and conviction.
When Quinnipiac polled about the inquiry from September 27 to 29, 52% approved of it. From October 4 to 7, 53% approved. Now, 51% approved.
That was the poll that was D+14 right?
All media polls are trash polls right now since they are polling to fit a narrative.
🤣Thomas Paine said this is the dark days of the Revolution. He said that times have found us,”
Nancy Palsy fake Founding father.
This is getting out of control!
Aaron Rupar
✔
@atrupar
Trump is now openly threatening to investigate Obama: "We want to find out what happened with the last Democrat president. Let's look into Obama the way they've looked at me ... they could look into the book deal that President Obama made. Let's subpoena all of his records."
He's resisting subpoenas and now he's trying to figure out how to blame Obama for investigations into his campaign.
Scott A**hole will play alongside him!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
rrb would have been against defeating Germany, because they were only killing Jews and rag heads.
congress authorized our involvement in WW II, imbecile.
so, i'll ask again, what strategic national interest is being served by staying in syria and antagonizing a NATO ally?
and why won't poli-grip pelosi bring it to an AUMF vote?
I volunteered for the US Navy nuclear power enlistment program in 1970. I passed the qualification test with a great number. I failed the physical exam for flat feet.
no you didn't. i took the exact same exam - and aced it - less than a decade later. and the very same nuke program was on a list of programs i was eligible for with my score.
big fucking deal.
that exam was the single easiest exam i've ever taken. and btw alky, you actually got lucky. there was never any guarantee that anyone who volunteered for the service was going to get into any program outside of the infantry. one of the soldiers who proctored the exam levelled with me as we chatted after we were dismissed. the service couldn't attract flies let alone new recruits in the wake of vietnam. had your arches not fallen you would've gotten killed.
Trump is now openly threatening to investigate Obama:
good. and long overdue.
and aaron rupar of vox and think progress fame is a walking fucking hand job.
My low quality genetics??
I'm about 56% Great Britain DNA and 43% German. 1% unknown!
My ancestor came from Germany in 1752.
My family faught in the American revolution!
My family faught in the American revolution!
i'm sure they did. for the british.
Until December 7th of 1941 the majority of Republicans were isolationists.
FDR sent the British huge amount of aid.
You are terminally stupid.
No, for Washington!
Roger , you still Cheering in Denver Bronco's?
OMG, Roger please .
Trump is now openly threatening to investigate Obama
If he did nothing wrong he has nothing to worry about, right ?
But the OBAMA CRIME SYNDICATE do look deranged and hysterical.
Let the investigators investigate, it's their job
Today was Roger on Fantasy Land Steroids .
Let's look into Obama the way they've looked at me ... they could look into the book deal that President Obama made. Let's subpoena all of his records."
so alky,
did you honestly think that none of the precedents you assholes set would become reality?
investigating 0linsky is just the beginning, son. what you clowns did with the russia hoax and what you're doing with the ukraine hoax will most certainly contain a backlash. in fact, if we are to be true to the new norms that have been established by the left, every single one of the democrat presidential candidates should be under investigation.
for what you ask?
for ANYTHING, alky. any fucking thing at all. why, we'll just start digging and see where it leads. an open-ended, multi-year investigation costing tens of millions of dollar$. we'll field a team of staunch conservatives. not david french or george will sissies. i'm talking tom fitton, kurt schlichter, some real fucking rabid animals.
you can't unring the bell, alky. that toothpaste will not go back into the tube. we need to put every single dem candidate, AND their families, through a living fucking hell.
ruin a few. cost them every dime they have in legal fees. maybe we can lock a few up on bullshit process crimes. perhaps we can trick a few into lying to investigators. and maybe, just maybe, we can raid a few of these cocksuckers in the middle of the fucking night, with fox news camera crews reporting live.
let's see how YOU guys like it alky.
Always so enjoyable when he talks about his Poccahatous Family history.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
rrb would have been against defeating Germany, because they were only killing Jews and rag heads.
As always the board historian doesn’t know shit.
The Führer’s Mufti: After World War I, the Great Powers of Europe jockeyed for influence in the Middle East’s oil fields and trade routes, with France and Britain holding mandates throughout most of the region. In the 1930s, the fascist regimes that arose in Italy and Germany sought greater stakes in the area, and began courting Arab leaders to revolt against their British and French custodians. Among their many willing accomplices was Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini, who fled Palestine after agitating against the British during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. He found refuge in Iraq – another of Her Majesty’s mandates – where he again topped the British most wanted list after helping pull the strings behind the Iraqi coup of 1941. The revolt in Baghdad was orchestrated by Hitler as part of a strategy to squeeze the region between the pincers of Rommel’s troops in North Africa, German forces in the Caucuses and pro-Nazi forces in Iraq. However, in June 1941 British troops put down the rebellion and the Mufti escaped via Tehran to Italy and eventually to Berlin.
Maybe you meant gypsies?
Maybe you meant gypsies?
No he really meant asshole georgians who sell insurance!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Interesting cut on ME history seen through the eyes of Israel....not sure whether you proved anything but your stupidity there sport....Rogers comment on rat is completely plausible...!!!!
A lot of Republicans are thinking about impeachment indictment of the President.
A growing number of congressional Republicans expressed exasperation Friday over what they view as President Trump’s indefensible behavior, a sign that the president’s stranglehold on his party is starting to weaken as Congress hurtles toward a historic impeachment vote.
In interviews with more than 20 GOP lawmakers and congressional aides in the past 48 hours, many said they were repulsed by Trump’s decision to host an international summit at his own resort and incensed by acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s admission — later withdrawn — that U.S. aid to Ukraine was withheld for political reasons. Others expressed anger over the president’s abandonment of Kurdish allies in Syria.
One Republican, Rep. Francis Rooney (Fla.) — whose district Trump carried by 22 percentage points — did not rule out voting to impeach the president and compared the situation to the Watergate scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency.
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“I’m still thinking about it, you know?” Rooney said of backing impeachment. “I’ve been real mindful of the fact that during Watergate, all the people I knew said, ‘Oh, they’re just abusing Nixon, and it’s a witch hunt.’ Turns out it wasn’t a witch hunt. It was really bad.”
The GOP’s rising frustration is a break from the past three years, when congressional Republicans almost uniformly defended Trump through a series of scandals that engulfed the White House. There’s now a growing sense among a quiet group of Republicans that the president is playing with fire, taking their loyalty for granted as they’re forced to “defend the indefensible,” as a senior House Republican said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly.
A few Republicans are starting to say they flat-out won’t do it anymore — particularly the president’s choice of his Trump National Doral Miami golf resort for next year’s Group of Seven summit of world leaders, a selection that will benefit him financially.
“You have to go out and try to defend him. Well, I don’t know if I can do that!” steamed a frustrated Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho). “I have no doubt that Doral is a really good place — I’ve been there, I know. But it is politically insensitive. They should have known what the kickback is going to be on this, that politically he’s doing it for his own benefit.”
Republicans dismiss Trump’s call for China to investigate Biden
Asked in recent days about President Trump's call for China to investigate the Bidens, elected Republicans said the president was joking. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
To be sure, Republican leadership in the House and Senate — and many rank-and-file GOP lawmakers — are still firmly behind Trump, who remains immensely popular with the party base. While several have criticized the president over policy, such as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from northern Syria, they have argued against impeachment.
On Friday, Trump’s top allies continued to defend him, playing down the Doral announcement and doing damage control for Mulvaney’s blunder, in which their former House colleague contradicted Trump’s “no quid pro quo” talking point and admitted that the president had withheld nearly $400 million in military aid to force Ukraine to pursue an investigation that would benefit him politically.
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Hours after the comments, Mulvaney sought to walk back his remarks.
After saying Trump held back aid to pressure Ukraine, Mulvaney tries to walk back comments
“I don’t see what the big deal is, frankly,” Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) said of Trump’s decision to host the G-7 at Doral.
On Ukraine, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, “I think Mick was very clear in cleaning up the statement, that there was no quid pro quo.”
Other Republicans shrugged off the latest controversies, including Trump’s choice of his Florida resort for the international meeting.
“I think the optics aren’t good . . . but we have a lot more problems to worry about,” said Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.).
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said the Doral announcement “doesn’t bother me a great deal” even as he admitted, “I think there is certainly an appearance of conflict of interest.”
Still, there was a notable shift in tone, even among some of Trump’s most adamant defenders. On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized Trump’s Syria decision in an op-ed in The Washington Post, just days after 129 House Republicans backed a resolution condemning the president’s move.
“Withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria is a grave strategic mistake,” wrote McConnell, who rarely criticizes Trump and never mentioned the president’s name in the op-ed. “It will leave the American people and homeland less safe, embolden our enemies, and weaken important alliances.”
I'm hoping that we will get a Christmas gift of impeachment and conviction!😇🚽
@abewilliamsdp
I just want to share this photo as a reminder of where @TulsiGabbard‘s loyalties lay. For anyone to smear my wife as an agent or asset of another country is offensive to all Americans, no matter where your political ideologies lay. #HillaryClinton #QueenOfWarmongers #Tulsi2020
https://twitter.com/abewilliamsdp/status/1185382849702219777
@thebradfordfile
AG Barr and US Attorney are on a world tour of countries that conspired with Obama's FBI and CIA to spy on the Trump campaign and brand Trump a traitor. There's one country that they do NOT need to visit...
RUSSIA
It was all a hoax.
There is only one reason AG Barr would come out of retirement to become the second most hated man in Washington and fight the entire establishment desperately trying to protect the Obama and Clinton cabal...
Honey Badger DON'T CARE.
He's bringing down all of it.
soon, but all in good time.
ONE BIG SHOE
this is why i consider the entirety of the media assclowns today.:
...as Congress hurtles toward a historic impeachment vote.
hurtle towards an impeachment vote?
LOL.
poli-grip pelosi and her merry band of fuckwits are doing everything humanly possible to AVOID an impeachment vote.
stop stealing without attribution alky. that's called plagiarism. and if you must, then at least steal something relatively factual. and include the link of course.
this shit's laughable.
@CJBdingo25
Barr expands probe.
"Durham has also requested to talk to CIA analysts involved in the intelligence assessment of Russia’s activities, prompting some of them to hire lawyers"
Not a good sign when CIA analysts have to hire lawyers.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ag-barr-expands-controversial-review-origin-russia-investigation-n1068971 … via @nbcnews
Actually a very good sign that Barr is on to something BIG, look at all the cockroaches scrambling
poli-grip pelosi and her merry band of fuckwits are doing everything humanly possible to AVOID an impeachment vote
they've actually held 3 and all have failed miserably. that's why this charade is all done behind closed doors over a phone call Schiff has to lie about and over a "whistleblower" it turns out Schiff has coached before he "blew". VOTE AGAIN and do this in the OPEN
Then get CRUSHED in 2020
Always so enjoyable when Roger talks about his Poccahatous Family history.
"We've taken control of the oil in the Middle East."
--Donald J. Trump
"Please, please, Speaker Pelosi, take a vote before this all starts looking even worse for Trump."
LOL
No vote on impeachment.
No vote on an impeachment inquiry.
If articles of impeachment are passed theN McConnell is saying the trial will problably last two months at six days per week beginning a 12:30 in the afternoon and lasting to whenever.
All senators are required to be in attendence.
That's no campaigning for most of the Democrat presidential candidates in the months covering Ohio, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
No other senate business will be transacted.
There will be no secret evidence, no anonymous witnesses. The president will have an opportunity to cross-examine.
Pelosi somehow will have to figure out a way to put this back into the tube it came from
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/growing-number-of-republicans-struggle-to-defend-trump-on-g-7-choice-ukraine-and-syria/2019/10/18/20e56612-f1b8-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT are all on their period today.
@MoscowMitch said
“It will leave the American people and homeland less safe, embolden our enemies, and weaken important alliances.”
His irrational decision will lead to chaos and gloom. And increase the risk of terrorist attacks against the United states and our allies in Europe or...
@realDonaldTrump
Corrupt Congressman Adam Schiff is angry that Ambassadors that he thought would be good for his fraudulent Witch Hunt, are turning out to be good for me - some really good! He’s got all meetings locked down, no transparency, only his illegal leaks. A very dishonest sleazebag!
@PlaysTrumpCard Replying to @realDonaldTrump
The person that needs to be testifying under oath is @RepAdamSchiff so the American public can learn everything about everyone involved with his coup attempt against the President.
Schiff under oath and in the open, GREAT IDEA
@LindseyGrahamSC
Appreciate being given an update by @VP Pence on the Trump Administration’s efforts in Syria. The Vice President, Secretary of State, and their teams are trying to create a win-win in Syria.
he was all over the news recently on Syria, are the FAKE NEWS highlighting this position change or doesn't it fit their narrative.
Must be waiting for DNC talking points (and running with those are political contributions the DNC must declare, right?)
Trump Weakened on Every Front
Washington Post:
“President Trump, whose paramount concern long has been showing strength, has entered the most challenging stretch of his term, weakened on virtually every front and in danger of being forced from office as the impeachment inquiry intensifies.
*Trump now finds himself mired in a season of weakness.
*Foreign leaders feel emboldened to reject his pleas or contradict him.
*Officials inside his administration are openly defying his wishes by participating in the impeachment probe.
*Federal courts have ruled against him.
*More and more Republican lawmakers are criticizing him.
*He has lost control over major conservative media organs.
*Polling shows a growing share of Americans disapprove of his job performance
and support his impeachment.”
Gabbard fires back at Clinton’s ‘Russian asset’ rows as 2020 Dem candidates back Hawaii rep
Trump Will No Longer Host G7 at His Resort
October 19, 2019 at 10:14 pm EDT
President Trump said that he would no longer be holding next year’s Group of Seven summit at his luxury golf club near Miami, citing what he said was “irrational” criticism that the choice would enrich his family business.
Said Trump: “I thought I was doing something very good for our country by using Trump National Doral, in Miami, for hosting the G-7 leaders. But, as usual, the hostile media & Democrat partners went CRAZY!”
______________
Er... Mr. President In Name Only,
a lot of Republicans also registered their "irrational" objections to your constant and continuing ways of violating the emolument prohibitions of your office by enriching yourself and your family in that way.
REAL CLEAR POLITICS AVERAGES
42.6 TRUMP JOB APPROVAL
54.1 TRUMP JOB DISAPPROVAL
WOW.
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